Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

There is nothing to add to that as we agree with the point. If Deputy Murphy is finished, it remains for me to say it has been a very informative session. On behalf of the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Justice and Equality, I thank Mr. Herrick, who had to leave early and had indicated that to me previously. I also thank Ms Farries from the Irish Council for Civil Liberties. Well done to Mr. Ian Power and Mr. Jack Eustace from SpunOut.ie on their work and I thank them for their contribution. Professor O'Higgins Norman, Dr. Foody and Dr. Milosevic have been very helpful in today's process and I thank them very much. They are based in DCU and we wish them continued success in the work of the national anti-bullying research and resource centre. Ms Blackwell and Ms Scott had little opportunity to prepare but seized the moment when the gap appeared. Well done as always.

I certainly will not conclude the meeting without making reference to the fact that we have for all the sad but right reasons reflected very particularly on the very tragic passing of Ms Dara Quigley. As has been mentioned, we are honoured to have her mother, Ms Aileen Malone, with us in the Public Gallery. I know it cannot have been easy for her to attend this morning but we thank her and those who accompanied her here this morning to our final session on online harassment and harmful communication. In her absence, I thank Senator Lynn Ruane for introducing the brief but very pertinent statement of the brother of the late Ms Jacqueline Griffin. These and many other cases have been addressed or highlighted over the past four weeks of hearings and they are the driver behind us choosing to try to grapple with this. Each of the sessions, including today's, which is no different, demonstrates that this is a very complex area and it is not a simple matter. It will not be simply remedied.

As colleagues have said, we now have the responsibility to prepare a report and deliberate on the recommendations we will put forward. I hope, if we are still a sitting Parliament, we will have the opportunity to publish that report and recommendations in late November or December. We do not know if we will still be here but we hope we will. We do not want to lose the value and potential of this exercise. I invite all members present, including Deputies Paul Murphy and Gino Kenny, who are not members of the committee, to join us for a group photograph with our guests outside in order to complete our snapshots of these sessions.